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THE SERIES
Emigration and Adaptation
Every person learns something, sets goals and moves forward in life. Emigration is a special experience. In emigration a person loses everything old (language, culture, native faces, habitual mentality, known rules of behavior and laws, way of life and many other things) and gets instead of all this everything new. At such times, one has to master several skills at once. Every simple everyday action turns out to be a complex task. These trials of the new world are perceived differently by a person in different periods.
Sometimes you feel complete antagonism towards the new place, at other times you are happy and delighted by the changes in it, sometimes you go through a phase of retrospection and reflection on your past life or maybe experience nostalgia. In the series I explore these processes through art in different techniques and media.
This series will be updated with new works. I still have unspoken thoughts about it.
This series will be updated with new works. I still have unspoken thoughts about it.
First steps
Mix media (concrete, glass) sculpture, 35x35 cm
Our Fears
Mix media (oil, acrylic) on canvas, 100x100 cm
Broken life
Mix media (oil, acrylic, concrete, collage) on canvas, 20x15 cm
Rebirth
Mix media (oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, sepia, handmade linoleum print, collage) on canvas, 30x30 cm
About Artworks
About the Collage "Rebirth"
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
About sculpture "First steps"
This work is about the complexity of the first steps. Every person learns something, sets goals and moves forward in life. Every new endeavor requires effort, patience, diligence. The first steps in any endeavor are the most difficult. They are so heavy and even painful, as if you are walking on a long road in shoes made of concrete filled with broken glass. But the more experience a person gains in a new endeavor, the easier it becomes on the way to the goal. Emigration multiplies this condition several times. In emigration a person loses everything old (language, culture, native faces, habitual mentality, known rules of behavior and laws, way of life and much more) and gets instead of all this everything new. In such moments, one has to master several skills at once in order to achieve several goals. Each simple everyday action (riding the bus, buying groceries, going to the doctor, etc.) at first turns out to be a difficult task, which, like a small piece of glass, digs into the foot, leaves a mark and makes the path more difficult.
About the Painting "Our fears"
The philosophical painting "Our Fears" depicts two hands. One of the hands is wide open and stretches upward in order to live and get the experience of everything that fate has written in its palm. A romantic girl standing on the line of love visualizes gaining love and loss. Personal growth and crises are shown by a brooding girl sitting on the line of mind. A cloud of thoughts and experiences is swarming above her head, and even one heavy thought pierces her like lightning. Passing along the path of life, which inevitably and logically leads to death expressed by a green strong tree rooted right in the cemetery. It is depicted on the lifeline of the hand.
The other hand at the bottom of the painting squeezes tightly the hand that wants to live life to the fullest. This hand symbolizes our fears, prejudices that prevent us from breathing deeply. Fear is a natural defense mechanism of a person, without which we would not have survived. It prevents us from doing foolish things, but sometimes it blocks us from taking an important step. We must control it, but not vice versa.
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
The other hand at the bottom of the painting squeezes tightly the hand that wants to live life to the fullest. This hand symbolizes our fears, prejudices that prevent us from breathing deeply. Fear is a natural defense mechanism of a person, without which we would not have survived. It prevents us from doing foolish things, but sometimes it blocks us from taking an important step. We must control it, but not vice versa.
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.